Romeo And Juliet Influence On Society

As seen in Act 1 Scene 1, when Tybalt is challenging Benvolio to a fight in Verona, Tybalt proclaims,"What, drawn, and talk of peace!I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee..."IN other words, Tybalt the Capulet directly points out that he hates Montagues, If Tybalt hates Montagues with that much passion, the reader might wonder how much Capulet himself hates Montagues. It also makes the reader ponder upon what Capulet would do if he saw Romeo in the feast.

This is revealed during a party he decided to throw so his loving daughter Juliet could meet Paris. While no Montagues were invited to this party held by the Capulets, Romeo, son of Lord Montague, showed up. Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, notices Romeo at the party and tells Lord Capulet. Although Lord Capulet holds Tybalt back from getting into a fight with Romeo, Tybalt doesn't listen and continues to rant on how Romeo is a villain. Lord Capulet, now annoyed by Tybalt’s disobedience, says “He shall be endured.

Tybalt from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is very rooted in his family's hate against the Montagues. On page 62 Tybalt recognizes Romeo and wants blood; he hates the Montagues. From birth his family probably taught him to hate them. So much that he would ruin the party just to kill Rome “ why uncle tis a shame” this shows he cares for his family name. His actions in Act 3 is a battle between the families and he kills Mercutio.

Tybalt was known for his reputation, he would always go around looking for a fight. Tybalt had never liked the Montagues because of a hatred between his own family and Romeo’s family which gave him a “reason” to start a fight with Romeo. The two families have been taught to hate each other, and this hatred

Tybalt thinks it an honourable, righteous act to kill any Montague in order to protect the Capulet family name. He takes Romeo's presence as open-faced effrontery and a clear threat to the Capulet family. Lord Capulet orders him not to start a scandal: "I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement. " Even this train of restraining and soothing comments do not succeed in calming Tybalt's petty and vengeful feelings of hatred for Romeo: "I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall" (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 92-93).

Towards the start of the story Romeo defies authority, because he went to a party for the Capulets, and the Montagues are not allowed to go to the party. Romeo decides to go to the party with his friends. Tybalt, who is a Capulet, realizes that Romeo is a Montague just by his voice. Even though Romeo doesn’t want to get in trouble for going to the party, so he says, “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels, and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage of my course.

Tybalt was fueled by anger which was brainwashed into him by Capulet to hate anyone with the name Montague even if they were just their kingsman. Due to this hatred Tybalt killed Mercutio since he was his sworn enemy. Romeo now hating Tybalt for killing his closest friend was dying for revenge added onto his hatred for Capulets. He killed Tybalt ending the fight and said, “This but begins the woe others must end. ”(Beers et al. 887)

Tybalt, an angry man, but with the thought of his households safety in mind. Tybalt is quick to act on things that make him infuriated. He does whatever he can to take a threat down, even if it leads to his death. “This is the voice of a Montague, fetch me my rapier boy...to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.” Within one second of finding out a Montague was at the Capulet party, he already wants to defend him and his household.

When Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that Romeo’s is at the masquerade, he displays his hatred towards the Montagues, “It fits, when such a villain is a guest: / I'll not endure him” (Shakespeare I, V, 73-74). Tybalt describes how Romeo, or more specifically a Montague, is a villian, and how he will not tolerate him at the ball. This illustrates Tybalt’s pride of the Capulet name, and how he views the Montagues as inferior. Before Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, he tells him, “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries / That thou hast done me” (Shakespeare I, V, 61-62). Tybalt states how he will not forgive Romeo for the harm he has done.

Out of their control, Romeo and Juliet are born into two different disputing families.. In the beginning of the play when Tybalt, a Capulet, encounters Benvolio, a Montague, he says "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee (13). " With his outbursts of rage for the Montague family, Tybalt is known throughout the book as a hateful character. Romeo and Juliet were born into feuding families which neither the Capulets nor the Montagues could have prevented; therefore it was fate, rather than choice, that set the stage.

Family affiliation is one of the more obvious factors that help determine the people’s standings in society. Family in Romeo and Juliet is a whole different and complex image as opposed to a modern family that most readers would understand. It was not just simply who one loves, but it also includes any person who affiliates themselves with the main families. In order to live a

Romeo and Juliet has lasted forever and a day in the school education system, but are its teachings finally becoming irrelevant today? Living in a fast-moving society, it is very surprising that a 421-year-old play has managed to stay in the school education system. However, Romeo and Juliet’s teachings about family are now starting to expose their weaknesses with age, with barely any messages applicable to our modern life. Romeo and Juliet's outdated representation of families as secretive and male-dominated is having a negative effect on adolescents in society. Factors such as feminism, stronger laws and other general changes in the modern world have rendered Shakespeare’s teachings about family useless.

It is clear that Tybalt takes the deep-dispute between two families more serious than any other characters in the play. His willingness to risk his life to defence the Capulet’s honour is clear when he declares “by the stock and honour of [his] kin, to strike [Romeo] dead [he] hold it not a sin.” Tybalt’s extreme loyalty to the Capulet’s house can be found as a source of his spiteful and arrogance, which all contributes to his death and deepens the hate between two

Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is often labelled incorrectly as just a Montague not seen as a Capulet, which is quite tragic as he is a Capulet too. First, by Tybalt just before fighting and being slain he says, "Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain." (III,i,59-60). Tybalt is labeling Romeo as not only a villain but a Montague although he is more and also a Capulet therefore Tybalt's own cousin. This scene is quite tragic as the new cousins duel, Romeo slaying Tybalt and becoming a hero to the Montague's for redeeming Marcutio but causing a tragedy for the Capulet's. After discovering Juliet's true death, and the reasons for it, Paris releases his anger. "That is that banish'd